set aside
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Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
set aside (third-person singular simple present sets aside, present participle setting aside, simple past and past participle set aside)
- (transitive) To separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.
- Plan to set aside three or four hours to see the museum.
- (transitive) To leave out of account; to omit or neglect.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of Being Religious; republished as “Sermon I”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, London: B. Aylmer, 1696, page 31:
- […] therefore setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavour to know the truth, and yield to that.
- (transitive) To disagree with something and reject or overturn it.
- (transitive) To declare something invalid or null and void.
Synonyms
- (reserve something for a specific purpose): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- (omit or neglect): put aside
- (disagree with something): decline, refuse, turn down
- (declare something invalid): annul, invalidate, rescind
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “omit or neglect”): raise, beg (as in beg the question) (of a question)
Derived terms
Translations
separate and reserve for a specific purpose
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to omit or neglect — see put aside
disagree with something
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declare something invalid
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